FASHION BITES

MATTHEW WILLIAMSON has put his stamp of approval on what's fast becoming the coolest fast food joint in London. Itsu, located conveniently at the bottom of Vogue House. He was spotted having lunch there with some of his fashionista friends last week.[b] DONATELLA VERSACE celebrated her 50th birthday at Mr Chow in New York on Sunday night with some of her best and most stylish friends: photographers Mario Testino and Stephen Meisel, supermodels Linda Evangelista and Helena Christensen and her own daughter, Allegra Beck.[b] NAOMI CAMPBELL sent Oprah Winfrey a gold card for her favourite waxing salon after the talk show queen filmed her visiting it for a slot on the show. But Oprah fears she will never pluck up courage to pay a visit to J Sisters, which is run by seven Brazilian sisters. "Apparently you're stripped from the butt all the way up… When the J Sisters get a morphine drip with three shots of tequila, I'll do it."[b] PENNY LANCASTER, soon to become Mrs Rod Stewart, was rumoured to be pregnant after being photographed looking more curvy than usual in a figure-hugging gown by Kyri.[b] KAREN WALKER 's little black book is getting more and more impressive. As well as spotting Sienna Miller in a little red dress from the New Zealand designer's latest collection, we've also heard that Kate Hudson, Jennifer Lopez, Julie Christie and Bjork are all fans. Lopez and Hudson both have a pair of the high-waisted, wide-legged jeans, we're told.[b] NELSON MANDELA will be guest of honour at Naomi Campbell's 35th birthday party next week, if he can make it. "It depends if he's well or not," said a rep for the 86-year-old former president of South Africa. [b] KATE MOSS and Pete Doherty are rumoured to be planning to get married at Glastonbury this year.[b] FORMER As Four designer, Kai, is set to marry Melissa Burns, the lead singer from electroclash group W.I.T (Whatever It Takes).[b] MANOLO BLAHNIK doesn't like being the centre of attention. "I don't like these occasions," he admitted during the The Black Alumni of Pratt's 14th annual Celebration of the Creative Spirit dinner last Friday, where he was surrounded by adoring fans. "I'm feeling neurotic and in a state."[b] BEN ELLIOT was teased by friends at the Quintessentially launch in LA on Wednesday for being underdressed. "As if I always go around in white tails!" exclaimed the nephew of Camilla Parker Bowles, who had accessorised his tailor-made Dunhill suit with a rainbow-speckled tie.[b] DAVID LAUREN, head of advertising and marketing for his father Ralph's company, must be serious about his girlfriend, presidential niece Lauren Bush. The 33-year-old accompanied his 20-year-old sweetheart to her annual summer "house parties" at Princeton University last weekend, which meant doing the student thing during a black-tie dinner on Friday night, a semi-formal soiree on Saturday and a dressed-down garden party on Sunday. SO that's why [b] Karl Lagerfeld wears gloves all the time. The 66-year-old designer covered up his famous knuckle-dusting rings with a silver pair at the Metropolitan Museum of Art gala last week. "There were many people to greet [at the gala]," he later told reporters. "And I'm not crazy about wet hands."[b] FRANCOIS PINAULT had abandoned plans to house his extensive art collection in Paris, blaming the city's complicated administrative red tape. "There are a lot of very disappointed people," said a spokesman for the 68-year-old businessman. "And Mr Pinault, of course, is the most disappointed. But he couldn't wait forever."[b] ELEY KISHIMOTO will launch their first menswear collection in July. The line is entitled BB Warr Assoc., after the company which souped up the VW GTI that EK has customised for Mark Eley to drive in the Gumball Rally this weekend. And he'll be wearing his own designs on the way.[b] A sale of more than 600 items designed by Paul Poiret in Paris this week raised more than £1.2 million. The collection, which dates from between 1905 and 1928, lay undisturbed in the house of Poiret's granddaughter for several decades before she arranged the sale.[b] ZANDRA RHODES launched WIZO.UK's lunch forum this week. The eccentric designer attracted more than 120 women to Wizo House to raise awareness of the initiative to raise money for vulnerable Israeli children.[b] NOEL GALLAGHER is a big fan of Pete Doherty. "We hung out in the dressing room and he's a gent, he's a top kid and I think he gets a real bad rap from the press and all this thing with Kate Moss," says the Oasis star. "'Kate had better beware' – well I know Kate Moss and it's Pete Doherty who better watch out because she is mad for it! I love him, and I hope he makes a great album."[b] LVMH is planning to get even bigger this year. <a class="importedlink" href="/search/default.aspx/keywords,bernard+arnault"> Bernard Arnault </a> told investors this week that he expected to see "significant growth" this year and predicted that some of the company's major competitors would fall on tough times in the not-so-distant future – and when they did he would be ready to buy them out.[b] <a class="importedlink" href="/search/default.aspx/keywords,versace"> VERSACE </a> has a new top man on board. Patrick Guadagno, who became managing director of D&G in 2003, joined Donatella and her team as president and chief operating officer of the wholesale division, effective Monday.[b] <a class="importedlink" href="/search/default.aspx/keywords,philip+green"> PHILIP GREEN </a> is to pay Justin Timberlake $1 million to perform at his son's bar mitzvah, according to US Weekly.